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Louisiana Ain't No Swamp

from Road Movie by MDH

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"sell the car, we're stayin' here"

We all agreed it was our favourite place – New Orleans was amazing, and the drive alongside the Gulf of Mexico to enter Texas at the SE corner was breath-taking.

“We head to Frenchman Street which every tourist guide seems to tell you is “where the locals go” (so I wonder whether it’s still true). The first place is fantastic – a band of all ages that sound like Pavement might sound if they grew up on the swamp and had an age range of 25-60. We buy cans of beer at the bar for less than $3 – this is definitely a record. The bar has a launderette in the back so the occasional glazed-over person with a wicker basket walking through only adds to the down-home feel. Up Frenchman St proper we see cute shops and I can’t resist buying a 2nd-hand book titled “Teaching as a Subversive Activity” while Tom and Kieron buy a DVD about train-hoppers in a nearby night market – directly from the director who is open about the fact that the more people buy it, the sooner he can start his next film. This guy is proud to present his film to all comers – he doesn’t seem to be the hard-sell type (he’s just spent the last year illegally sitting in train carriages) yet he’s out there almost like an old-west miracle cure seller.”

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let’s dress up in white and go and dine by candlelight
Frenchman St. will be just fine
let’s drink cans of beer and wait to watch the scene appear
I fear we’ve crossed the party line

movin over clear water
there’s light reflected from below
she flapped her wings but we caught her
she ain’t no swamp I’ll have you know

order me the shrimp I’m comin for a second stint
on the boat back from Algiers
have the oysters fried with 4 martinis on the side
sell the car we’re stayin here

movin over clear water
there’s light reflected from below
she flapped her wings but we caught her
she ain’t no swamp I’ll have you know

see me sneakin out the door
the preacher’s said it all before
who’s the hottest of them all,
down in Preservation Hall?

movin over clear water
there’s light reflected from below
she flapped her wings but we caught her
she ain’t no swamp I’ll have you know

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from Road Movie, released September 1, 2014

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